Karen Gomyo bio
Karen Gomyo (Pre-College ’00; ’01, violin) possesses a rare ability to captivate and connect intimately with audiences through her deeply emotional and heartfelt performances. She had a successful 2024–2025 season that included debuts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Orchestra RAI in Torino, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and Warsaw Philharmonic; and returns to Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the Baltimore, Indianapolis, Toronto, Sydney, and Melbourne symphony orchestras. Her 2025–2026 season brings more highly anticipated appearances. She returns to the New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. She also makes debuts with the SWR Symphonieorchester in Stuttgart, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre Orchestra. Other recent highlights include debuts with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Semyon Bychkov, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with Jakub Hrůša, and Czech Philharmonic, as well as returns to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. A passionate chamber musician, Gomyo has performed with artists who include Leif Ove Andsnes, James Ehnes, Heinrich Schiff, Susan Graham, Tine Thing Helseth, and Ismo Eskelinen, with whom she recorded the duo album Carnival on BIS Records. She is also a champion of the nuevo tango music of Astor Piazzolla, having collaborated with Piazzolla’s longtime pianist, the tango legend Pablo Ziegler. She released A Piazzolla Trilogy (BIS Records) with the strings of Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and guitarist Stephanie Jones in 2019. Born in Tokyo, Gomyo began her musical career in Montréal and New York. She studied under the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard before continuing her studies at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the New England Conservatory with Mauricio Fuks and Donald Weilerstein, respectively. Gomyo also studied privately for a formative period in Vienna with Heinrich Schiff.
